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...anyone call a visit to the Trinity atomic bomb test site romantic [Nov. 3]? The 1945 test began the senseless deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, and continued suffering from cancer and genetic mutations. It's about as romantic as Dachau...
...voter "wary-worried -waiting" [Sept. 15]? You jest. With runaway inflation, forced busing and senseless murders, I'm ready to vote right now. Against every incumbent politician and judge...
Harrison has absolutely no patience with the neurasthenic absorption and empty style of Joan Didion--who has been called "America's finest woman prose stylist," but whom Harrison finds "transparently ersatz," and "merely cheap." "All connections are equally meaningful and equally senseless," says Joan of Dark; her nihilism, says Harrison, amounts to amorality. Didion's not entitled to "fiddle while Watts burns," and her disconnection of the suffering soul from any political or spiritual meaning, sorely contrasts with Harrison's crusade to restore those vital, fading links...
...past ten years, as the editor of the Buenos Aires Herald, Cox has been the last holdout--the only editor who will print information criticizing Argentina's military government--information about missing people, about a corrupt system of law, about senseless murders and violence, information about a society gone haywire in its attempt to erase its internal dissent. And he has done so with daily death threats to himself and his family--even threats to his 11-year...
...when their voices have been ignored by older men intent on personal political gain and committed to a reactionary and senseless foreign policy, young people must continue the fight. Those who refuse to register should publicly explain their reasons, to local newspapers, to their friends, parents and Congressmen, and to local registration boards...